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La penna infuocata di Mihai Eminescu. Tra idealismo e disillusione nella pubblicistica antimperiale
Full text linkThe present paper examines the publicist writings of Mihai Eminescu, the national poet of Romania, focusing on his condemnation of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. Eminescu, a fervent Romanian nationalist, argued that these empires had unjustly seized territories historically belonging to Romania and viewed them as oppressors and exploiters. He considered their actions a threat to Romanian identity and independence, and he advocated for Romanian unity and independence. They offer a valuable lens through which to understand the Romanian national experience and the challenges faced by the Romanian people in the 19th century
Imaginarul violenței în romanele lui Radu Pavel Gheo Noapte bună, copii! și Disco titanic
Full text linkRadu Pavel Gheo’s novels Good Night, Children! [Noapte bună, copiii!] and Disco Titanic are connected on the structural level, but also by the time of action, atmosphere, some episodic characters and topography – the Banat and the ex-Yugoslav space. Both novels deal with the theme of violence (although from different perspectives), both institutional and individual (subjective and objective), and a series of violent deaths (murders, suicides, accidents) drives the action towards its end
Across and beyond the Islamic Mediterranean. Bausani’s concepts of ‘Islamic languages’ and ‘Islamic literature’ and their relevance in times of global studies
Full text linkThis article discusses the present relevance and recent revival of an ambitious, pioneering project launched more than half a century ago by the distinguished Italian Islamicist Alessandro Bausani (1921-88), namely his case for a comparative literature of Islamic languages. After examining the meanings and implications of these concepts, I address some of the criticisms they have attracted, including charges of essentialism and culturalism. Their current relevance is further discussed with regard to both premodern and contemporary Islam, by considering some of the recent developments and readjustments of this theoretical framework by scholars working in the footsteps of Bausani. Special attention is devoted to studies focusing on the emic dimension of Islamic languages and literatures or, in other words, on the presence of similar notions in the linguistic imagination and ideologies of both premodern and contemporary Muslims
Appunti sulla rappresentazione della violenza nelle Avventure del bravo soldato Švejk nella Grande Guerra
Full text linkThe Good Soldier Švejk (1921-1923) is regarded as a humorous and amusing novel. This is certainly true, but it can be interesting to identify – and that is the aim of the present paper – the stylistic devices employed to narrate the massacres of the First World War while converting intolerable horror and violence into an amusing story, continuously provoking laughter, and thus allowing for relaxation. In his novel, Jaroslav Hašek recounts the “great times” of the first decades of the 20th century pointing to its political, bureaucratic, legal, clergy, and war violence
Declinazioni della violenza nei romanzi di Aglaja Veteranyi
Full text linkThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the images through which violence manifests itself, in all its modalities, within Aglaja Veteranyi’s two novels: Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht [Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta] and Das Regal der letzten Atemzüge [The Shelf of the Last Breaths]. In the background there is the institutional violence exercised by the dictatorial regime, which will lead the author’s family to flee Romania, a place that the protagonist will not stop recognizing as “home”. Then the attention will be focused on the dramatic family and social situation, on the unresolved dynamic of self-recognition in relation to the other, in which the linguistic question will play a fundamental role in terms of incommunicability, which is echoed by a narrative style that reflects the author’s intimate lacerations
La topografia della violenza in Kurzschlüsse. Wien di Ilse Aichinger
Full text linkThe article examines Ilse Aichinger’s texts from Kurzschlüsse. Wien (2001), focusing on her depiction of Vienna’s topography during the Nazi regime. Aichinger’s topographical descriptions, along with subtle historical and cultural references, reveal latent traces of violence and trauma embedded within the cityscape. Through textual examples, this study aims to shed light on how Aichinger’s approach to topography and memory challenges the silence surrounding historical atrocities
Chi ha paura di Virginia Woolf? Genere e crimine nella narrativa greca degli anni ’80
Full text linkThe 1980s witnessed a notable expansion of the Greek publishing scene, a growth reflected in the burgeoning field of Greek crime fiction. This period also saw significant political, economic, and social transformations in Greek society, many of which centered on gender and family dynamics. Within the crime fiction of this decade, women began to occupy key plot positions, and their roles in relation to crime and violence were examined through a gendered lens. Feminist characters emerged, and feminist ideas were discussed and negotiated, even by male characters. The purpose of this article, a gendered reading of 1980s Greek crime fiction, is to analyze the infiltration of feminist thought within a genre predominantly authored by men
